In 1940, there were 132.1 million people in the U.S. This was part of the “exclusion era”. here were laws in place only allowing the citizenship of whites and people of African descent. This affected all first generation Japanese immigrants who were seen by most Americans as “cheap labor.” They were treated much like any other minority. Even though naturalization was legal for the people of other nationalities there were still approximately 600,000 Italian aliens and 264,000 German aliens living in the U.S. in 1940.
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, a U.S. naval base in the Pacific Ocean. Hospitals and airfields were targeted along with the harbor. A total of 2,403 soldiers and civilians were killed and 1,178 were injured …show more content…
Roosevelt signed and issued Executive order 9066 which allowed the Secretary of War to create military zones. Executive Order 9066 affected 112,000 people of Japanese descent, only two thirds of which were American citizens. Later, all of the people were permanently relocated outside of the restricted military zones. When this first began the safety of the Japanese was the cause of the camps. This also happened to those with German and Italian heritage
In these internment camps, four to five families shared a single tar-papered house. Space was not a huge issue because not many brought personal belongings. Not long after being in these camps, the internees developed a routine: children went to school while the adults worked.
Job opportunities differed from camp to camp. In some camps, many jobs were available while in others there were only a handful. The government hoped that the internees could farm and produce their own food and that the camps would eventually become …show more content…
In December 1944, Executive Order 9066 was overturned by Franklin D. Roosevelt and the internees started to be released. This process took anywhere from 6 months to a year. Since the internees lost everything when they were relocated into the camps, few were able to return to their homes. Several thousand chose to repatriate to their home countries while others went to temporary homes in the U.S. Due to their unfair treatment during the war, the U.S. Government paid the Japanese $25,000 in reparations in 1988, while it is often forgotten that Italian-Americans and German-Americans were also
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, a U.S. naval base in the Pacific Ocean. Hospitals and airfields were targeted along with the harbor. A total of 2,403 soldiers and civilians were killed and 1,178 were injured …show more content…
Roosevelt signed and issued Executive order 9066 which allowed the Secretary of War to create military zones. Executive Order 9066 affected 112,000 people of Japanese descent, only two thirds of which were American citizens. Later, all of the people were permanently relocated outside of the restricted military zones. When this first began the safety of the Japanese was the cause of the camps. This also happened to those with German and Italian heritage
In these internment camps, four to five families shared a single tar-papered house. Space was not a huge issue because not many brought personal belongings. Not long after being in these camps, the internees developed a routine: children went to school while the adults worked.
Job opportunities differed from camp to camp. In some camps, many jobs were available while in others there were only a handful. The government hoped that the internees could farm and produce their own food and that the camps would eventually become …show more content…
In December 1944, Executive Order 9066 was overturned by Franklin D. Roosevelt and the internees started to be released. This process took anywhere from 6 months to a year. Since the internees lost everything when they were relocated into the camps, few were able to return to their homes. Several thousand chose to repatriate to their home countries while others went to temporary homes in the U.S. Due to their unfair treatment during the war, the U.S. Government paid the Japanese $25,000 in reparations in 1988, while it is often forgotten that Italian-Americans and German-Americans were also